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The Eighty Years' War [i] or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) [j] was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands [k] between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
The Dutch War for Independence from Spain is frequently called the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The first fifty years (1568 through 1618) were a war solely between Catholic Spain and the Protestant rebels of the Netherlands. It was a military conflict with integral religious elements.
The years 1579–1588 constituted a phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt after most of them concluded the Union of Utrecht on 23 January 1579, and proceeded to carve the independent Dutch Republic out of the Habsburg Netherlands.
William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; [1] [2] 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands [3] [4] as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the ...
The main European powers recognized Belgium's de facto independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra (1831) Dutch Empire Aceh Sultanate: Victory: First Sumatran expedition (1832) United States Dutch Empire: Chiefdom of Kuala Batee Victory: Dutch–Ahanta War (1837-1839) Dutch Empire: Ahanta ...
The Anglo-Dutch Java War in 1810-1811 was a war between Great Britain and the Netherlands fought entirely on the Island of Java in colonial Indonesia. The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies , Herman Willem Daendels (1762–1818), fortified the island of Java against possible British attack.
This is a list of wars involving the Dutch Republic, which emerged from the Habsburg Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War (c. 1566–1648). The set of "United Provinces" that would later become the Dutch Republic proclaimed its independence in 1581.
'placard of abjuration') is the declaration of independence by many of the provinces of the Netherlands from their allegiance to Philip II of Spain, during the Dutch Revolt. Signed on 26 July 1581, in The Hague, the Act formally confirmed a decision made by the States General of the Netherlands in Antwerp four days earlier.